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  • Sinema, Kyrsten (D-AZ)

    “Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said that she’ll sign on to the Democrats’ climate bill—after advocating for a few adjustments that she apparently didn’t care to explain to anyone.” 1

    • The Two Faces of Sinema

      Follow the Money – This Tells the Whole Story

      “U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan.” 2

    • Sinema Turned Her Back On Arizona
      Senator Kyrsten Sinema
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      Emily’s List, the national group that backs female Democrats who support abortion rights, said Tuesday that it will no longer endorse Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because she opposes changing Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation. 3

      The abortion rights groups Emily’s List and NARAL pulled their support from Sinema over the filibuster vote. 4

      “I’m livid. I can only call her a turncoat,” Dunn said. “I feel betrayed.” 5

      U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after playing a key role in scuttling voting rights legislation that many consider essential to preserving democracy. 6

  • Email Marketing

    Email Marketing

    Email Marketing

    There seems to be hundreds of email marketing services out there. These are some of our recommendations.

    Fire Drum Email Marketing – Since 1999, their core business has been creating cost-effective, easy to use email marketing solutions that get results. They can customize any level of service ranging from Do-it-yourself campaigns to Reseller, Private Label, Managed, Corporate communications and Multi-location campaigns with segmented logic.

    MailChimp – MailChimp is the world’s largest marketing automation platform. It’s like a second brain that helps millions of customers—from small e-commerce shops to big online retailers—find their audience, engage their customers, and build their brand.

    Constant Contact – Constant Contact was founded as “Roving Software” in 1995, setting up shop in a cramped attic in Brookline, Massachusetts. Back then, email was usually viewed as just a way for friends to communicate online. But our founders saw what it could be: a valuable marketing tool that would help small businesses level the playing field in the battle against big business.

    Mad Mini – Originally, they didn’t set out to create an unusually good email marketing company. They had simply set out to create an unusually good email. They needed something stylish, simple and easy to make, to promote our little music company.

  • Prayer on the Fifty Yard Line?

    Prayer on the Fifty Yard Line?

    Impact of Kennedy v. Bremerton already apparent as courts are forced to reconsider Establishment Clause cases

    Justice

    “In June, the U.S. Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Bremerton ruled that a high school coach’s prayers at midfield following football games did not violate the Establishment Clause. The decision in Kennedy is notable for more than just the troubling outcome. In its ruling, the Court overturned the long-standing “Lemon test,” which has guided courts since 1971 in determining whether a government entity has unlawfully established religion. As BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler lamented, “the Court … severely limit[ed] the Establishment Clause and its important protections for religious freedom.”” 7

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

    Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

    2022 Churchwide Assembly

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    ELCA Churchwide Assembly

    The 2022 ELCA Churchwide Assembly will be held in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 8-12, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. We gather under the theme, Embody the Word. There’s an importance in the double meaning of the two words:

    • Embody, meaning both the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the life of the church emerging from a pandemic.
    • Word – both meaning Jesus Christ and scripture

    Luke 24:45 states, “Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.” We embody the Word, both Jesus and the scripture, by speaking it and proclaiming it. In 1522: Martin Luther’s translation of the New Testament made the Word accessible to the people and revolutionized the Christian movement worldwide. 500 years later, the call to make Jesus accessible to the people still exists today and as we look to the future of this church.

    The ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the primary decision-making body of the church, is a process of communal spiritual discernment. When the ELCA Churchwide Assembly convenes, its voting members meet with confidence in God’s grace around word and water, wine and bread, to carry on their work on behalf of the entire church. Over the course of the assembly, voting members:

    • Hear reports and review the work of churchwide officers, leaders and units;
    • Receive and consider proposals from synod assemblies;
    • Elect officers, board members and other leaders as specified by the constitution or bylaws;
    • Establish ELCA churchwide policy;
    • Worship together;
    • Adopt a budget; and
    • Conduct other business related to the ELCA churchwide organization.
  • Busch Valentine, Trudy

    Busch Valentine, Trudy

    Trudy Busch Valentine

    Connert Media Endorsement – Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate for Missouri

    The stakes have never been higher. We need to send Trudy to the U.S. Senate, She will be the 51st vote the Democratic Party needs to pass truly comprehensive gun reform, protect the right to an abortion, and break through the partisan divide.